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Patrols launched to clip wings of bird poachers

[2018-09-29 07:08]

NICOSIA, Cyprus - Volunteers looking for poachers that target migrating birds are on patrol in several Mediterranean countries, including Malta, Lebanon and Cyprus.

Earthquake fear ends Dutch gas boom

[2018-09-29 07:08]

ZEERIJP, Netherlands - The Dutch are proud of the way they have created a country by fighting back the ocean - but when they started making their own earthquakes, it proved a step too far.

Japan, US agree on trade talks

[2018-09-28 07:59]

NEW YORK - US President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed on Wednesday to start trade talks in an arrangement that, for now, protects Japanese automakers from further tariffs, seen as a major threat to the export-dependent economy.

Iran will remain in deal with conditions

[2018-09-28 07:59]

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday that his country will remain in the Iran nuclear deal, on condition that the pact serves Iran's interests.

Soldiers make friends for life during drill

[2018-09-28 07:59]

SYDNEY - Although the weeklong bilateral military training mission, Exercise Pandaroo 2018, has almost come to the end, the bonds made between participating soldiers from China and Australia will last a lifetime.

Argentina and IMF reach deal for $57b to halt slide of peso

[2018-09-28 07:59]

NEW YORK/BUENOS AIRES - The International Monetary Fund on Wednesday increased its three-year lending program with Argentina by $7 billion to $57 billion, on the condition that the central bank halted full-scale interventions to support the ailing peso.

New air-cleaning bus driving down pollution

[2018-09-28 07:59]

A new bus operated by one of the United Kingdom's largest public transportation companies has hit the streets in Southampton with the goal of driving down air pollution. The Go-Ahead Group says its Bluestar7 bus is the first in the UK to be fitted with a roof-mounted air filtration system that will suck up dirty air as it moves around the city before cleaning it and sending it back out. If the bus unveiled on Thursday is a success in Southampton, the company will roll the idea out nationwide.

Preschools prep tots for digital age

[2018-09-27 07:53]

YOSHIKAWA, Japan - It's drawing time at this suburban nursery school in Japan, but instead of crayons, tiny fingers are tapping on colors on iPad screens and taking selfies. Digital schooling has arrived in this nation long known for its zealous commitment to "three R's" education.

'Biggest bird' dispute put to nest

[2018-09-27 07:53]

PARIS - After more than a century of conflicting evidence, Anglo-French animosity and a H.G. Wells novella involving murder most fowl, scientists said on Wednesday they have finally solved the riddle of the world's largest bird.

Villagers tap into trend for 'superfood'

[2018-09-27 07:53]

MUTALE, South Africa - From before dawn, 54-year-old grandmother Annah Muvhali weaves between baobab trees that loom over her rural South African home, collecting fruit that enthusiasts worldwide hail as a "superfood".

New York seeks to claw back 'Big Oyster' past

[2018-09-27 07:53]

NEW YORK - One sunny morning in New York, a dozen biologists and volunteers stand in knee-deep water, chucking net sacks of oyster shells down a human chain, before planting them in containers on the riverbed.

'Ka pai': Maori language back from brink

[2018-09-27 07:53]

WELLINGTON - Beneath the carved timber roof of a traditional "marae" meeting house at Wellington High School, dozens of students watch entranced as a play performed entirely in the Maori language unfolds.

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